Secret Service agents are questioning the man, whose identity has
not been made public yet. A federal law enforcement official who
spoke to the Associated Press revealed it was not immediately
clear whether the man was actually aiming the drone at the White
House, or using the device to take photographs.

US Secret Service says orders individual to land a drone flying
low over Lafayette Park across from WH. pic.twitter.com/lcfvvZI5gc

President Barack Obama was not at the White House. He has been
meeting with representatives of six Gulf Arab countries at Camp
David in Maryland, discussing US military aid and security
concerns raised by the nuclear talks with Iran.

The incident comes just a day after the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) launched a campaign to remind tourists and
residents that Washington, DC was a “No Drone Zone.” The 15-mile
restricted airspace around the Ronald Reagan Washington National
Airport was established after the 2001 terrorist attacks
involving hijacked commercial aircraft.

This is the second drone incident involving the White House
grounds this year. In January, a small quad-copter crashed on the
grounds of the executive mansion. An employee with the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), part of the Department of
Defense, later confessed to flying the DHI Phantom quad-copter
and losing control of it somewhere over the White House.